WWIII began in September of 1965 when the US first used nuclear weapons against Vietcong battalions on the Ho Chi Minh trail. By the time the escalation process had finished more than 500 million people had died from direct destruction and fallout. The millions of soldiers and civilians that died during the Warsaw Pact annexation of continental Western Europe and the evacuation to Britain prior to the Christmas armistice were comparitively minor in extent.
Russia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, China, Vietnam, Korea, and Cuba had suffered far more in the nuclear phase of the war than America and Canada. Half their population was killed before they were able to evacuate the cities by walking, private vehicles, and public transport. Only the rural population survived to suffer the fallout in most of northern Eurasia. And that was just the beginning.
The winter of 1965 and 1966 was unusually, abnormally, frighteningly, cold. The destruction of transportation networks was compounded by the inability of the road, rail, pipeline, and canal systems to move coal, oil, and gas to the electrical generation systems that kept industry (and agriculture) functioning. The loss of spare parts supply from the complex web of industrial production further reduced production in industry and agriculture.
The late frosts of spring and the early frosts of fall for the 1966 growing season destroyed much of the northern world's grain crops. The climate induced droughts reduced food production to the same extent not only in the Indian subcontinent, Northern Africa, Northern Latin America, and South East Asia, but in the rainfall watered areas of southern Europe, America, and China. Irrigated areas produced crops only where diesel or electricity was available to run the pumps.
The Famine had begun.
Russia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, China, Vietnam, Korea, and Cuba had suffered far more in the nuclear phase of the war than America and Canada. Half their population was killed before they were able to evacuate the cities by walking, private vehicles, and public transport. Only the rural population survived to suffer the fallout in most of northern Eurasia. And that was just the beginning.
The winter of 1965 and 1966 was unusually, abnormally, frighteningly, cold. The destruction of transportation networks was compounded by the inability of the road, rail, pipeline, and canal systems to move coal, oil, and gas to the electrical generation systems that kept industry (and agriculture) functioning. The loss of spare parts supply from the complex web of industrial production further reduced production in industry and agriculture.
The late frosts of spring and the early frosts of fall for the 1966 growing season destroyed much of the northern world's grain crops. The climate induced droughts reduced food production to the same extent not only in the Indian subcontinent, Northern Africa, Northern Latin America, and South East Asia, but in the rainfall watered areas of southern Europe, America, and China. Irrigated areas produced crops only where diesel or electricity was available to run the pumps.
The Famine had begun.
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Looks like I'm not the only one who reads "Resurrection Day" more than once.